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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (428514)7/17/2003 3:08:26 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
"Only an idiot expects 100% agreement on matters such as intelligence conclusions."

>>> You must be talking about yourself, because I never said I expected any such thing.

>>> However, a lie of omission is still a lie.

>>> Foreign intelligence references have never before been made in a SOTU address. Their use this time clearly was to leave an impression that the dictator was well on his way toward nuclear armament, and it was a slippery rhetorical technique to get around the inconvenient fact that several US Intelligence Agencies disagreed: a lie of omission.